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Rdio and Streaming Music Services

For as long as I can remember, I have been an audiophile. I believe my obsession with audio quality started a couple years into learning how to play the electric guitar; about 18 years ago. Up until last month, I was still purchasing CDs from a local small shop specializing

By Alex Knight 19 Sep 2011

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A Future Where iMacs And MacBooks Don't Exist

What if we got rid of our iMacs and MacBooks as we know them? Imagine a future in which your primary computing device is an iPad. For advanced tasks, when you are connected via your home WiFi, you could tap an app on your iPad and simply swipe and move

By Alex Knight 09 Sep 2011

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The Android Device Disruption Conundrum

There’s no doubt that Android has been a success as far as pure activation of handsets is concerned. There’s one major stumbling block among the plethora of device manufacturers that I see, and that is how they can differentiate between competitive devices running the same OS. This is

By Alex Knight 08 Sep 2011

An Interview with Harry Marks

I was fortunate enough to recently speak with Harry Marks, author of curiousrat.com — a technology weblog. We discussed topics relating to writing, in addition to many geeky things about Apple, how he uses technology in his day-to-day life and what his productivity workflow looks like. I interviewed Harry via

By Alex Knight 07 Sep 2011

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The Natural Evolution of OS X

Lion has been out for nearly a month now, and like many of you, I upgraded immediately on release day. There has been much discussion and consternation over some of the new UI/UX conventions introduced in 10.7, which have borrowed heavily from its iOS counterpart. There are many

By Alex Knight 30 Aug 2011

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Capacitive Touch Buttons Must Die

Back in July, Jon Bell wrote an excellent piece on why capacitive touch buttons are generally a bad idea--I tend to agree with his statements on this as well. I recently wrote about my experience with Android in exhaustive detail, and I had similar frustrations with the capacitive touch buttons

By Alex Knight 20 Aug 2011

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My iPhone to Mac Writing Workflow

Inspiration for topics that I want to write about usually come from an article I’ve read on someone else’s weblog, or perhaps a news source. A secondary factor may be Twitter, which seems odd, but it works. Sometimes an idea sparks and I like to start gathering my

By Alex Knight 27 Jul 2011

Google Plus Data Liberation And Twitter

I have finally jumped on the bandwagon and joined Google plus, and there are a lot of things to like so far. It got me thinking though, other than addressing some of the major gripes I have with Facebook and Twitter, what other reason do I have for switching hard

By Alex Knight 11 Jul 2011

The Current State of Android from an iOS Users Perspective

Staying informed about both past and current technology is not only a point of interest of mine, but it's incumbent upon me to do so, considering the field of work I'm in. If you have been reading Zero Distraction for a while, you know this weblog

By Alex Knight 27 Jun 2011

To the Cloud!

Trying to digest this weeks announcements from Apple's WWDC event seems about as easy as digesting a KFC Double Down sandwich. In other words, you're better off command quitting your RSS reader for the remainder of the week. Every single weblog and major Mac publication has

By Alex Knight 10 Jun 2011

On Twitter Launching Its Own Photo Sharing Service

Alexia Tsotsis writing for Techcrunch: According to multiple sources, Twitter is on the verge of announcing its own built in Twitpic competitor. Like tomorrow, if things go according to plan (naturally this post might change that). This doesn’t come at all as a surprise to me, and I doubt

By Alex Knight 31 May 2011

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Extracting Posts As Plain Text Files

In mid October 2010, I decided to take my weblog away from the clutches of Tumblr and move things to a more reliable platform. It was then that I found Squarespace, which thus far has proved itself as a robust, flexible and supremely reliable service that doesn't lock-in

By Alex Knight 26 May 2011
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